DHACA Day IX

Defining new guidance for data sharing and challenge the statutory sector to improve interoperability and data sharing between consumer and statutory sectors for continuity of care and assisted living purposes

Developing a freely-available road map from app coding through to patient use, to inform developers, GPs, and patients on key issues.
Promoting the DHACA case for NICE’s remit to be enlarged to include medical software

Developing a strategy to ensure maximum adoption of self-care services by those people who could benefit from self-care, encouraging new innovations at scale within a local economy and connected to national initiatives.

Providing emerging digital health and care service entrants with an understanding of the landscape & market architecture to large-scale, sustainable consumer businesses, and the required business opportunities & partnerships.

Developing a common technical framework for interoperable digital health and care ecosystems, for stakeholders to develop systems, components and APIs that interconnect according to business requirements with minimal technical barriers.

Measure and demonstrate the effectiveness and benefits a digital health and care system, to justify investments. Measuring more than just cost-avoidance, and do justice to the scope, power and value of digital health and care systems.

Recent posts

A PIN (Prior Information Notice) has been published by NHS England Urgent and Emergency Care. The primary purpose of this PIN is to outline the intention for pre-tender market engagement and to inform suppliers of prospective opportunities in connection with NHS England’s Digital Urgent and Emergency Care Programme in transforming Urgent and Emergency Care. Currently the “Scheduled date for start of award procedures” is blank so there appears to be no immediate deadline though clearly an early response will be most likely to win business. The NHS Five Year Forward View explains the need to redesign urgent and

Hat tip to Richard Foggie for notifying DHACA of a brokerage workshop to be held in Manchester on 7 Jan. EC CCG, as a partner in the EU supported STOPandGO project, is after some innovative diabetes services extending to TECS and education/social cohesion apps. It is short notice however it’s a €3M pie – with some slices destined for innovative SMEs. For more details, and to book in to the event, click here.

Innovate UK is launching a Tech Inspired Innovation Feasibility Studies Competition in January. Their plan is to invest up to £2 million in technical feasibility studies to stimulate innovation across four enabling technology areas: advanced materials; biosciences; electronics, sensors and photonics; and information and communication technologies (ICT). The aim of the competition is to ensure that small and micro businesses in the UK are equipped to respond to market opportunities across a range of economic sectors. They are seeking proposals that will kick-start the delivery of genuinely new products and services, with substantial and scalable commercial potential. Projects must be led by a small or micro company, working either alone or in collaboration with one

BSI is inviting DHACA members to comment on the draft for PAS 212 during its four week consultation period. PAS 212 is entitled “Automatic resource discovery for the Internet of Things” so is clearly very relevant to the DHACA community, particularly for those involved in deployment of sensors/wearables. A PAS (Publicly Available Specification) is a sponsored, fast-track, consensus-building informal standard that is produced by the UK national standards body, BSI Standards Limited. The development of PAS 212 has been sponsored by Flexeye. Although non-mandatory, historically BSI PAS standards have often been later incorporated into mandatory standards, so it

As many of DHACA’s membership will be aware, we have been actively engaged in the creation of an information privacy Code of Conduct for health & wellbeing app developers. As of today this is now out for comment from the app development community, with a deadline for comments by November 13th. Please send any comments you have on the draft EU Code of Conduct to me (charles.lowe@DHACA.org.uk) as soon as possible, and no later than November 12th so I can be sure to get them in by the deadline. Note that although initially voluntary, such codes often end up as mandatory, so

It was held alongside a North West Coast AHSN event when they are inviting their NHS “scouts” in for a quarterly event (these are senior managers, one per NHS organisation, with a particular focus on innovation). The morning focus was on some of the very exciting work being done at the University of Lancaster, that DHACA members were be invited to participate in, plus a really interesting view from SEQOL, Mutual of the

NICE has a consultation underway seeking views from the sector on a list of proposed topics, with an encouragement to suggest new ones too. Details here. DHACA aims to produce a consolidated response from members so please either copy your comments or send your comments to charles.lowe@dhaca.org.uk by 2nd October.

Introduction

DHACA (the Digital Health & Care Alliance) is a not-for-profit member-driven organisation set up by Innovate UK to help catalyse the market in digital health and care by addressing some key obstacles and points of market failure on a bottom-up, consensus-based approach. Key topics being addressed include:

Interoperability and consensus on basic architectures

Information governance, identity and consent

Evaluation of impact and benefits of new products and services ( for example, in testbeds)